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sdertz wrote:Oh, well better than nothing. Full drive encryption is not really needed, but at least volume encryption should be implemented in the same way as your competition (q...) did it.

Yes, but I hope this really means with DS 6.1 every Volume on the NAS can be encrypted, also the defaultVIDEO, PHOTO (etc) folders. And I hope that the Media-Indexing can handle it then. Because after Reboot, the encrypted volumes are unmounted until mount with encryption-key. So the Media Index should not clean the media index after every reboot (like it is at the moment). At the moment, when having custom media folder in encrypted shared folders and after DS reboot the Media index have to index everything again. It's a pain in the ass.

We have 2017 soon, talking about Data security every where. And still a big NAS-OS like DS is not able to encrypt the full Drive and is not able to use features like SED (self encrypting drives). It's a pity. Also SED should be usable with DS soon!

I was looking forward to upgrading to 6.1 given syno.dustin's previous assertion that this version would bring encryption to all spcial folders, such as Home, Photo and Video (been waiting for this for 3 years!).

Has this feature been pushed to a later release, or they just didn't mention it in the release notes?

Thanks

Do you agree that you should be able to encrypt your important folders, such as Photo, Home (and Video and Music)? PLEASE VOTE and comment at the following thread and make your voice heard (you'll need to cut and paste the URL):http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=93366

Indeed. I'm just surprised they didn't mention it in the release notes.

Did you use the key manager? I didn't even know this existed... it must be new. I also see that you do not have the option to "auto-mount" on startup anymore, you must use the key manager. Interesting.. I'll have to read up on that.

Do you agree that you should be able to encrypt your important folders, such as Photo, Home (and Video and Music)? PLEASE VOTE and comment at the following thread and make your voice heard (you'll need to cut and paste the URL):http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=93366

Wow, nice. I have to try it soon! Would be great! Do you have made good experience right now with encrypted default shared-folders like "video" and "photo" or do you have found bugs and problems?

Did they fix also the bug with "Media-Indexing" on shared folder? On Every Reboot of my DS, the file indexing has to re-index everything again! A full day of media indexing, every restart of DS. Because after restart and after manually enter the mount password for the encrypted folders, the media indexing has forgotten everything. Explained here.

Manni79 wrote:

sdertz wrote:Oh, well better than nothing. Full drive encryption is not really needed, but at least volume encryption should be implemented in the same way as your competition (q...) did it.

Yes, but I hope this really means with DS 6.1 every Volume on the NAS can be encrypted, also the defaultVIDEO, PHOTO (etc) folders. And I hope that the Media-Indexing can handle it then. Because after Reboot, the encrypted volumes are unmounted until mount with encryption-key. So the Media Index should not clean the media index after every reboot (like it is at the moment). At the moment, when having custom media folder in encrypted shared folders and after DS reboot the Media index have to index everything again. It's a pain in the ass.

We have 2017 soon, talking about Data security every where. And still a big NAS-OS like DS is not able to encrypt the full Drive and is not able to use features like SED (self encrypting drives). It's a pity. Also SED should be usable with DS soon!

Manni79 wrote:Wow, nice. I have to try it soon! Would be great! Do you have made good experience right now with encrypted default shared-folders like "video" and "photo" or do you have found bugs and problems?

Did they fix also the bug with "Media-Indexing" on shared folder? On Every Reboot of my DS, the file indexing has to re-index everything again! A full day of media indexing, every restart of DS. Because after restart and after manually enter the mount password for the encrypted folders, the media indexing has forgotten everything. Explained here.

Manni79 wrote:

sdertz wrote:Oh, well better than nothing. Full drive encryption is not really needed, but at least volume encryption should be implemented in the same way as your competition (q...) did it.

Yes, but I hope this really means with DS 6.1 every Volume on the NAS can be encrypted, also the defaultVIDEO, PHOTO (etc) folders. And I hope that the Media-Indexing can handle it then. Because after Reboot, the encrypted volumes are unmounted until mount with encryption-key. So the Media Index should not clean the media index after every reboot (like it is at the moment). At the moment, when having custom media folder in encrypted shared folders and after DS reboot the Media index have to index everything again. It's a pain in the ass.

We have 2017 soon, talking about Data security every where. And still a big NAS-OS like DS is not able to encrypt the full Drive and is not able to use features like SED (self encrypting drives). It's a pity. Also SED should be usable with DS soon!

Somebody has a solution with encrypted video folders?

Yes, we can encrypt video default folders, but it is still as bad as before.On restarting DS, all the indexed video files are gone. Every DS-restart the indexing starts at the beginning and every time it needs a full day for indexing everything .... again, and again, and again... every restart after mounting the encrypted files again

Some body has a workaround or fix for that? To use encrypted video folders but don't have to re-index everything afters DS restart?

Do you agree that you should be able to encrypt your important folders, such as Photo, Home (and Video and Music)? PLEASE VOTE and comment at the following thread and make your voice heard (you'll need to cut and paste the URL):http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=93366

Do you agree that you should be able to encrypt your important folders, such as Photo, Home (and Video and Music)? PLEASE VOTE and comment at the following thread and make your voice heard (you'll need to cut and paste the URL):http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=93366

But I think when we have to index everything from the scratch at each restart, it's not a good solution.

Answer from official support is... it's "as designed". On encrypted folders all indexed data will be deleted on restart of DSM and everything will be re-indexed after restart. Bad design I would say.Answered that a solution to have encrypted folders not re-indexed on every reboot would be nice. I hope for an update in the future.

Problem is no one from the management is reading forums like this one (same goes for Apple,Microsoft, etc.).So maybe, if you are lucky, a forum admin might read it, but than again, he can't make decisions on products.

In the world today, security & privacy should be #1priority, but people, willingly give that up for comfort and easy of use...

How many here use the credit card for shopping? Do you know what happens with that data (you should)? But you don't care, because it is easier to pay with a card than to go to the ATM, take money and so on. How many use a secure e-mail provider (like protonmail)? Easier with the all-in-on integrated Gmail or outlook.com

Very few people even understand encryption, like you encrypt your folders, but how about logs,metadata, the sync log available in the main Drive Station, that shows ALL your recent (up to 1million) uploads and downloads (and no option to delete it). Think you will say no to a bad guy asking you for that file, that was encrypted but he is able to see the full name/date and ask for it...or maybe a government agency or whatever.

Synology has a great selling plan as far as I'm concerned - have your own cloud and restore your privacy BUT security and privacy should be the staple, not functionality and ease of use.

Personally, I don't use any home/homes folders (disable them from the start), keep my own folder structure, encrypted and that is it.Do I lose some "nice" things? Sure, but for now it is a price I'll pay gladly to keep my stuff as private as possible.

Problem is no one from the management is reading forums like this one (same goes for Apple,Microsoft, etc.).So maybe, if you are lucky, a forum admin might read it, but than again, he can't make decisions on products.

In the world today, security & privacy should be #1priority, but people, willingly give that up for comfort and easy of use...

How many here use the credit card for shopping? Do you know what happens with that data (you should)? But you don't care, because it is easier to pay with a card than to go to the ATM, take money and so on. How many use a secure e-mail provider (like protonmail)? Easier with the all-in-on integrated Gmail or outlook.com

Very few people even understand encryption, like you encrypt your folders, but how about logs,metadata, the sync log available in the main Drive Station, that shows ALL your recent (up to 1million) uploads and downloads (and no option to delete it). Think you will say no to a bad guy asking you for that file, that was encrypted but he is able to see the full name/date and ask for it...or maybe a government agency or whatever.

Synology has a great selling plan as far as I'm concerned - have your own cloud and restore your privacy BUT security and privacy should be the staple, not functionality and ease of use.

Personally, I don't use any home/homes folders (disable them from the start), keep my own folder structure, encrypted and that is it.Do I lose some "nice" things? Sure, but for now it is a price I'll pay gladly to keep my stuff as private as possible.

I would just like to say i agree with all said here in this thread.

Has there been any movement by Synology to address the re-index issue on re-start mentioned here?